[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by vickie

my 7 year old daughter has molluscum contagiosum virus for a year and is spreading her friends wont play with her does anyone no any treatment for this

victoria mcintyre

I hope this link serves to help a little http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=311&AreaID=804&LinkID=407  when you click it, you'll see the introductyion and directly above links for, prevention and cure etc etc....good luck :-)...and try this one too http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/molluscum.htm

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[vickie]

quote:Originally posted by bezoar

Have a grandson with molluscum, which I am told is a form of pox virus.  Currently, he's being treated with some caustic chemical by the dermatologist.  Is there any alternative treatment?  Any truth to the use of duct tape with warts, and would that help?

Bezoar

victoria mcintyre

[vickie]

quote:Originally posted by bezoar

Have a grandson with molluscum, which I am told is a form of pox virus.  Currently, he's being treated with some caustic chemical by the dermatologist.  Is there any alternative treatment?  Any truth to the use of duct tape with warts, and would that help?

Bezoar

has your grandson got rid of molluscum yet and if so can you please tell me how as my daughter has had it ages.

victoria mcintyre

[vickie]

quote:Originally posted by nightmare

Hi, i think i may have molluscum contagiosum.I dont want to see a doctor, is there any medicine i can take?

my daughter has had it a year no point going to a doctor as they give u nothing and tell you it will go away itself within 6 months to 4 years watch as it spreads very quickly everywhere on the body.

victoria mcintyre

[July18thsparkler]

To Vickie,

I feel I can really relate to you on this topic, I feel so bad about your daughter and that guy's grandson. Children are just so vulnerable to everything and I can only imagine how devestated you are that you can't seem to get any answers. My name is Amanda and I am 19 years old and was diognosed with Molluscum. Unlike the majority of the people my age I didn't contract this virus through sexual activity and permisquity. I was devasted when I found out that I had gotten this, because I pride myself of being a clean person - most of all i have no idea what to tell my fiance, how do you tell the man your about to marry that you have contracted an STI (sexually transmitted infection), but didn't get it by haveing sex. I've had this since september of 2004 and have done my homework on it. i have found that there are not many very good or easy treatments, although i did like the results of a treatment called cimetdine when i read about it. But that the thing there are treatments that physicians can do but they won't treat them, it's extremely frustrating for me because my doctor told me that there are treatment but she doesn't treat them, and i'm no acception. i am extremely outraged because the longer i have these lesions the greater the risk of me giving this to someone else, unintentionally of coarse, personally i don't wish this upon anyone. My doctor said it will go away, but it's getting worse and harder to control, i said to her, but that really didn't matter it seemed. i constantly live in fear of giving this to someone else. Why have treatments if no one will treat you. Are you having this problem in communication with your daughters physician.

sincerely,
Amanda

Amanda Neal

[chris]

mmm, it's a tough one. Molluscum is a pox virus (related to smallpox actually) and is very infectious. But it takes time for your body to mount an effective immune response and kick it out.

Viruses are hard to shift because they grow in our own cells. That makes it very hard for drugs to be made capable of telling the virus from a healthy cell. With bacteria it's easy because they are so different to our own cells so drugs can readily to targeted to attack just the bug not the host.

It will clear up, unless there is a specific immune problem that is making you susceptible, although if you are otherwise in very good health that sounds unlikely.

Best

Chris

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
 - Groucho Marx

[rolans]

Hi-

Urine cures molluscum!! My 2 year old son had molluscum. I treated it with his own urine. It worked very fast, within a week it started to clear up.
What happened was he somehow contracted this nasty little virus perhaps at his doctors? It started slow but over some weeks it got worse and he suffered. It would spread in its typical way up from his belly. It got to his neck and now I began to really panic. What if it got on his face? I did an extensive search for a cure and naturally I assumed there would be a simple over the counter remedy. Boy was I wrong, the more research I did the more I was shocked that no one had a real solution for molluscum and that so many people have and live with molluscum.
What I found was the usual wait till it goes away crap or get some sort of vague complex treatment that would traumatize my kid. My wife called her father in Mongolia and he suggested the urine for a cure. After my son would pee in his pamper we would rub him with the pee wet pamper. What I do remember is that while he had molluscum it would never spread below his pampers and I had feared that it would spread to his penis and rectum. It never did due to the fact that urine was the barrier. In Asia urine is used for curing many blood related illness. Chingis Khan Used forms of this treatment to stay healthy.  
Please try it for all ages.

Roland        
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[somanypickle]

I sure hope you're right because I'm about to put my head between my legs!

[ashwynne]

quote:Originally posted by vickie

anyone any ideas any home remedies for molluscum.

My 16-month-old was diagnosed with molluscum two weeks ago.  He had the spots all over one arm, with a few on his legs and face.  The pediatrician said not to worry about them (yeah, right!).  Anyway, I read online about a study that showed that breast milk kills the papilloma virus in normal warts (in most cases, the warts disappeared after the second treatment).  Fortunately, my son is still nursing, and, even though it's a different virus, I decided to give it a try.  The spots were noticeably smaller after the first treatment (I covered them with Band-aids soaked in breast milk at first, and later just dabbed the milk on and left them uncovered).  Now they are almost all gone.  Of course, there's no way of knowing if they would have disappeared without treatment in the same time frame, and I know breast milk isn't terribly easy to come by if you're not breastfeeding, but if you're in a similar situation, it's definitely worth a try.  Hope it helps!

[cray]

I seem to have molluscum contagiosum, although my dr diagnosed me with some sort of wart that kids get, she said just try using some wart acid treatment (yeh it works, but i have napalm burns now), i think Dr's know **** all now i ignore there advice. i still got one or 2 of them after 2 months of blizting them around my groin, pretty much in the path that i would scratch, its so embarressing as i am 25, and i have girls lining up to have sex with me, although i probably caught this from the swimming baths. Its odd though because my last girlfriend really ground on that area (for about 4 months) and never had them or got them, but i suppose she was immune or something.

Its so hard to get rid of though i might try the pee remedy

[laurenm]

quote:Originally posted by July18thsparkler

To Vickie,

I feel I can really relate to you on this topic, I feel so bad about your daughter and that guy's grandson. Children are just so vulnerable to everything and I can only imagine how devestated you are that you can't seem to get any answers. My name is Amanda and I am 19 years old and was diognosed with Molluscum. Unlike the majority of the people my age I didn't contract this virus through sexual activity and permisquity. I was devasted when I found out that I had gotten this, because I pride myself of being a clean person - most of all i have no idea what to tell my fiance, how do you tell the man your about to marry that you have contracted an STI (sexually transmitted infection), but didn't get it by haveing sex. I've had this since september of 2004 and have done my homework on it. i have found that there are not many very good or easy treatments, although i did like the results of a treatment called cimetdine when i read about it. But that the thing there are treatments that physicians can do but they won't treat them, it's extremely frustrating for me because my doctor told me that there are treatment but she doesn't treat them, and i'm no acception. i am extremely outraged because the longer i have these lesions the greater the risk of me giving this to someone else, unintentionally of coarse, personally i don't wish this upon anyone. My doctor said it will go away, but it's getting worse and harder to control, i said to her, but that really didn't matter it seemed. i constantly live in fear of giving this to someone else. Why have treatments if no one will treat you. Are you having this problem in communication with your daughters physician.

sincerely,
Amanda

Amanda Neal

[jimkat01]

My youngest battled this for most of the summer.  She has eczema and those pesky bumps would appear where she had her break outs.  
I took her to the dermatologist 1x month and he put this plant extract on.  Once this dried for 6 hours then I would bath her and they would become blisters and the contagious part would come out.  
She was a real trooper!  She did great.  This took about 5 times but now she is molluscum free. (knock on wood)
Good luck to you all!

-Kat

[neilep]

That is fantastic news Kat, and as you said..what a trooper your yongest was...well done !

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[Parismaison]

quote:Originally posted by rolans

Hi-

Urine cures molluscum!! My 2 year old son had molluscum. I treated it with his own urine. It worked very fast, within a week it started to clear up.
What happened was he somehow contracted this nasty little virus perhaps at his doctors? It started slow but over some weeks it got worse and he suffered. It would spread in its typical way up from his belly. It got to his neck and now I began to really panic. What if it got on his face? I did an extensive search for a cure and naturally I assumed there would be a simple over the counter remedy. Boy was I wrong, the more research I did the more I was shocked that no one had a real solution for molluscum and that so many people have and live with molluscum.
What I found was the usual wait till it goes away crap or get some sort of vague complex treatment that would traumatize my kid. My wife called her father in Mongolia and he suggested the urine for a cure. After my son would pee in his pamper we would rub him with the pee wet pamper. What I do remember is that while he had molluscum it would never spread below his pampers and I had feared that it would spread to his penis and rectum. It never did due to the fact that urine was the barrier. In Asia urine is used for curing many blood related illness. Chingis Khan Used forms of this treatment to stay healthy.  
Please try it for all ages.

Roland        
[][][][]

[Parismaison]

I've heard from many elderlies that urine stops bleeding from fresh cuts but I didn't know it can cure molluscum. I'll be sure to try it on my daughter when her results comes in and IS molluscum contagiosum.

[rikuk]

I have molluscum, my doc diagnosed it as thrush first, cream for which cost a fortune, and didn't work.

I am curently getting treatment from my local GUM clinic,  freezing the individual spots with liquid nitrogen combined with salt baths, a bit painfull, but it seems to be working (thank god), but scaring too. my girlfriend has been incredably suportive considering the location of the infection.

Through my own research on the net i have found there are a number of places you can catch it from, like swimming, hot tubs, gym equipment, toilet seats... etc as well as sexually transmitted (we havent had sex for about 2 months now)

How the hell do I stop myself being infected again without giving myself an obsessive compulsive disorder? I bought some alcohol hand cleanser to keep with me, just incase I touch someone!

I'm gona try the urine too, although it does seem a little wierd. and also an old wifes tail, using the cooled water from boiling eggs (worked on a wart i had a few year ago)

Do some people have more chance of catching these? as i have had warts and verucas in the past.

My First Post :-)

Rik UK



You are what you eat...... i am a pizza

[Andrew K Fletcher]

Hi

Try this, I am certain it will work, has been tried and tested in my family for many years now and does not fail.

clear nail varnish, use coloured nail varnish also if not in visible places. Paint over warts, let dry, then re coat. repeat as the warts shrink and the varnish becomes loosened, scrape off the old varnish and re apply.

about a week and they will be completely gone, will not leave a scar, and appear to stay away. this is with normal warts however, so I don't know for sure that it will address your own condition by maintaining protection for long periods, but then neither do you unless you try it.

Please come back and tell us how you get on with using nail varnish

Have a great new year[]

Andrew

"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"

[rikuk]

Due to the location, nail varnish would be very uncomfortable, tried the pee thing thou, and started using tea tree oil.

There was a marked improvement on day 1 !

pee and salt baths for me for a bit, 3 times a day and tea tree oil aplications :-) hope i don't smell like the old people on the bus!

Rik UK

You are what you eat...... i am a pizza

[rikuk]

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How the hell do I stop myself being infected again without giving myself an obsessive compulsive disorder? I bought some alcohol hand cleanser to keep with me, just incase I touch someone!
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You are what you eat...... i am a pizza

[Jstar]

I believe i have MCV and am VERY stressed about it. What very little sexual activity i had has now ceased, im afraid of being around friends and in their homes, and i feel like i have to be covered at all times. I have sensative skin, and the itching of the MCV it hard to bear, thus some of my bumps are scratched open. My case has spread rather quickly in my trunk and stomach area, although it started on my arm - which leads me to believe that it wasnt sexually contracted since i know my partners very well. Im about to spread my own pee all over my body - is it safe if some of the lesions are open?